HCLE - Ted

Ted Kahn

"The earliest involvement I and my brother, Bob, had in all of this history dates back to 1962-64 in Denver(GW High School, in Irwin Hoffman's math classes via Albrecht, his neighbor & friend, then working at Control Data Corp--was (we believe) the first US school to ever teach programming to students).
I gave a talk about all of this (including the Lawrence Hall project I co- founded in 1971 with my brother, Dean Brown @ SRI,Xerox PARC, etc)at both Stanford Media X and SJSU in a history of computing series"

Media X Lecture Series - Ted M. Kahn, PhD, “Journeys in Inventing the Future”
A Personal History of Using Computers for and in Education (pdf)

I have all kinds of other archives around as papers
and things I've been wanting to donate

Ted Kahn

I. INFORMATION

In 1971 Ted Kahn graduated with a bachelor degree in computer science in the University of California. He received his B.A. in computer science with distinction, and his M. A. and Ph.D in psychology, all from University of California.

By 1971, he worked as a Research Assistant in Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, helping to increase the quality and quantity of science learning for every student by providing programs that engage all students in science across learning environments.

In 2000 Ted and his DesignWorlds team applied this background in creating the key web content and web educational marketing messages for Apple to support their launch of iMovie, and this web content remained highlighted on Apple's and education web site for over 16 months. By 2003 he was working as co-founder, President and CEO of Design Worlds for Learning, Inc. and a co-founding principal of CapitalWorks. He has been actively involved in developing and marketing innovative uses of interactive technologies for creative lifelong learning for over 32 years. Over the past 15 years, his special areas of expertise have been in the uses of digital and desktop video, as well as the Internet. He is known internationally as a pioneer and innovator in action-research projects involving technology and learning in both K-12 schools and higher educations and other areas. His commercial business background at Atari, Picodyne and Digital F/X, as well as research experience at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center included development and marketing of numerous award-winning educational multimedia products, hypermedia computer-based training systems and complete user educations strategies and support materials for new kinds of tools for lifelong learning and creativity.
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He is also Senior Fellow of Learning & Creativity at The Tech Museum of Innovation. The Tech Museum of Innovation's Design Challenge Learning approach engages students in the design process to solve a relevant, real-world problem.
He was honored in 2003 as the first lifetime NMC Fellow of the NMC: New Media Consortium, in recognition of his lifelong contributions to the development and creative use of interactive computing, digital media and the web and telecommunications networks for the advancement of teaching, learning and creative expression. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Scholar with the Media X @ Stanford; CSTS Fellow with the Center for Science, Technology & Society at Santa Clara University and Founding Director of the Bay Area Science Museum Education Collaboratory.
Since 2004, with his wife and DesignWorlds co-founder, Frona, Ted has been especially focused on helping over 100 teens and college students make informed choices regarding possible colleges, graduate school programs, and potentially early careers, based largely of helping them identify and use their natural strengths, interests, preferred learning styles and thinking talents.
Ted Kahn is a frequently invited keynote speaker and workshop presenter at national and international conferences. He consults for Fortune 500 companies, museums, school districts, and non-profit organizations, and has been a board member or advisor for numerous museums, government organizations, and public-private collaborations.